Do you know any Spanlish?
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From: Springfield, IL USA
I don't speak a lick of Spanish or Spanglish but on a recent trip to south Texas my woman friend convinced me to drive into Mexico. She said she had taken high school Spanish and could get us around just fine. We got so lost in one of the most God awful barrios I have ever seen (much worse that the worst Chicago slum!). I though I was a dead man and could not find our way out and her "command" of the language was only making matters worse. Anyway, we made it back and decided it was probably not necessary to drive around Mexico sightseeing!
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From: New England
Originally posted by 2Bowers
I took 4 years of "proper Spanish" in school and got straight A's, but I never used it after that. So now I can order fluently in a Mexican restaurant (if we had one) and communicate on a very basic level with our seasonal crews. (Problem is, they come from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, etc. and everyone has a different dialect.)
Forget ordering in Spanish at Taco Bell, they can't even get English orders right around here. As a long-time Taco Hell junkie, my favorite line is to say "one of everything, to go please. And hold the tomatoes." One guy who knew I was a regular actually started ringing up one of everything, he thought he was being a smart *** but it locked up the register. He had no access key, the manager's key didn't work, and they had to ask all the customers (including us) to order through the drive-up for the next 3 hours while a regional manager came in to fix it.
No tacos por mi, esta noche. I went to Subway.
I took 4 years of "proper Spanish" in school and got straight A's, but I never used it after that. So now I can order fluently in a Mexican restaurant (if we had one) and communicate on a very basic level with our seasonal crews. (Problem is, they come from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, etc. and everyone has a different dialect.)
Forget ordering in Spanish at Taco Bell, they can't even get English orders right around here. As a long-time Taco Hell junkie, my favorite line is to say "one of everything, to go please. And hold the tomatoes." One guy who knew I was a regular actually started ringing up one of everything, he thought he was being a smart *** but it locked up the register. He had no access key, the manager's key didn't work, and they had to ask all the customers (including us) to order through the drive-up for the next 3 hours while a regional manager came in to fix it.
No tacos por mi, esta noche. I went to Subway.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!
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